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Israeli singers Ishay Ribo and Eden Hason at a ceremony marking Remembrance Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem, on May 12, 2024.

Mizrahi pop singer Eden Hason comes out as gay

By MICKEY LEVIN , MAYA GADESH , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

David Levy speaks near the Erez Crossing in Gaza, September 13, 1999

Bidding farewell to David Levy, a trailblazer for a generation of Mizrachi politicians

By JPOST EDITORIAL

"Group of Ashkenazim Jews" 1900 not GALL

Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse - opinion

By Lisa Sayegh/JTA

Sami Michael, the Israeli writer and civil rights activist, who died on Monday at 97.

Iraqi-Israeli writer, civil rights activist Sami Michael dies at 97

By MAARIV ONLINE , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE TOOLKIT includes images of Sephardi culture.

Jewish schools must embrace Sephardi and Mizrahi culture

By TY ALHADEFF

A BLACK PANTHERS demonstration in the early 1970s.

How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

A BLACK PANTHERS demonstration in the early 1970s.

Israeli Black Panthers founder, former MK Charlie Biton dead at 76

Lior Farhi.

Israeli singer Lior Farhi dies of cardiac arrest at 53

By Walla!

The restored Magen Avraham Synagogue in the Wadi Abu Jamil neighborhood of Beirut, seen in 2016.

Leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community dies at 80

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

IMAGERY FROM the ‘Distinctions’ quarterly journal, fall 2023 edition, appears as part of the effort to address current issues from a distinctly Sephardi and Mizrahi perspective while also uncovering the oft-forgotten history and culture.

This Mizrahi Heritage Month, we must be united for Israel - opinion

By TY ALHADEFF

'CASSETTE INDUSTRY': Satisfying demand for Sephardi music.

Judicial reform protests started with the 1990s 'music revolution' - opinion

‘OUR PRESIDENT, Isaac Herzog, should encourage more of these dialogues. Sadly, most politicians prefer exploiting our differences to overcoming them,’ the writer argues.

Lack of diversity vs lack of human rights: Battle of Israeli blind spots - opinion

ASSI COHEN and Liat Harlev in their viral clip

Civil war clip from Israeli comedy show 'Eretz Nehederet' resurfaces, goes viral

By HANNAH BROWN

A SCENE FROM ‘The Hilula.’

‘The Hilula’ finds the laughs in ‘90s-era Israel - review

By HANNAH BROWN

AWEKE KOBE ZENA: Seizing the opportunity.

Right-wing NGO backs ousted anti-racism czar, calls to extend tenure

By MICHAEL STARR

WEST JERUSALEM’S hotels lean toward the higher end: David Citadel Hotel, near the Mamilla Mall.

Grapevine: Greek to him

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

DUDU TASSA (left) and Jonny Greenwood.

Rocker Dudu Tassa teams up with Radiohead leader

THE GHRIBA synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, where this month’s attack took place: There was a sense of loss, but also an undercurrent of grim determination that this community would carry on, says the writer.

No fear, more effort to build after the Djerba attack - opinion

By MENDY CHITRIK